Subject: John, let's make this count
From: Barack Obama <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:55:37 -0500

John --

Seven years ago, the American auto industry -- an icon of 
our nation's ingenuity and middle class prosperity -- was on 
the brink of collapse. Plants were closing and hundreds of 
thousands of workers were getting laid off. When I came into 
office, some folks told me that it was just too late to turn 
things around. But I knew that wasn't the case. We wouldn't 
turn our backs on American workers or American 
manufacturing.

And last year, we saw American auto sales hit an all-time 
high. I went to the Detroit Auto Show last week to see this 
progress firsthand. And in that one city, I saw something that 
was not unlike what our whole country has gone through 
these past few years. We've gone from crisis to recovery to 
resurgence. We're on a 70-month streak of job creation, 
we've made historic investments in clean energy, we've 
changed the way we pay for college, and we've brought 
almost 18 million Americans into our health care system.

So when Republicans are saying that things are worse 
than they were before I took office, I'm not sure where 
they're looking. You can't lead for the future while ignoring 
the progress of the past. It just doesn't work that way.

Americans can do anything, John. I really believe that. 
Even when it's challenging and it seems like things are 
changing around us at a faster pace than we can keep up 
with, I know we can do amazing things when we put our 
minds to it and work together. But we need leaders who 
have the vision to lead us forward, not drag us back. 
Democrats need 35,000 new grassroots donations before 
the end of the month, if you can, pitch in $3 or more and 
help us hit that goal:

https://my.democrats.org/January-Goal

Thanks for standing with me on this, again and again.

Barack Obama

 

 

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